Building The Burrow!

Pearla*Merle

Lovely productive day!

Bathroom properly scrubbed (parents are visiting this week) and various other odd jobs done.

Wimbledon tickets applied for. Also joined the LTA so I can go into their ballot (worth the £25 punt, especially since I didn't manage to go this year.

A few theatre trips plotted for next year, EXCITED

:www: MFW Wonderment: huge batch of soup made from leftover veg in fridge (plus remaining butter beans), all in the freezer now. Sainsbobs order has indeed produced some free items (breakfast biscuits, soup and something else I forget). RM survey ready to post, so happy with my free stamps

:coffee: Simple Pleasures: waking up to snow falling :j

:heartsmil Burrow Building: had a good day hanging out with Mr M. Didn't feel stressed about needing to sort the house out for guests as it's now in a fairly constant vaguely passable state (this is a new and huge improvement!)

Pearla*Merle

Hello, hello, hello! :wave:

I have a real reason for awolness this time - they offered me a last minute date for surgery so I was off getting that sorted out. So glad it's over and done with...!

I've had about a week of recovery during which I could only cope with staring rather blankly at Disney films/costume dramas to distract me from the pain/alarm at slow-healing wounds but I'm well on the mend now and can actually do things like make myself a cup of tea/put my own socks on (much hilarity having my mum here who's had to help bath me etc ).

Despite still feeling tender, I just can't believe how much better I feel. I used to have the odd spates of horrible sickness, but what I didn't realise was how much constant pain I was actually in. It's literally evaporated. I've not felt this healthy/well/normal/clear-headed in years. It's like an incredibly heavy fog has lifted. So excited to get my life back. :j

Needless to say, apart from needing the heating on, it's been rather moneysaving staying in the house and not doing anything interesting.

Happily my pay has been sorted, so I got a bumper payment today which is most welcome.

Plan for next little while is to cancel/apply for new CCs, and then review bank account situation and make sure I'm making the most of what's out there.

Oh, I did buy something, this evening Mr M found some walking boots on an Amazonia lightning deal (vibram soles - been needing some for ages, didn't want to go over £50 for them and thought I'd have to wait for summer sales but no, they appeared in the deals £49.99 down from £100, hurrah!).

Mr M has got a right racket going on right now - Amazon Pryme are paying people £3 if you select to have slow shipping on items. It works per item you buy. He's up to around £35 cashback now. :rotfl:

I've just started rereading 'How I Lived a Year on Just a Pound a Day' and have remembered that I used to be really good at finding free events that were on the go, I must start searching for that sort of thing again and get out and about to those more often.

Decluttered: my gallbladder :rotfl:; all my worries about being well enough to do certain things in the future; all the guilt and regret about things that have happened (or not, as the case may be) in the past as now I know how much my health was interferring with things (i.e. I wasn't imagining things or just being generally useless :T)

:coffee: Simple Pleasures: being able to read and form coherent sentences again! :T

apple_muncher

So good to have you back (or most of you, anyway!) xx

Wishing you a speedy recovery. Does the early surgery mean that you can go on that trip?

gallygirl

apple_muncher wrote: »

So good to have you back (or most of you, anyway!) xx

"Having just stepped on the scales, GG wonders how much a gall bladder weighs ".

Glad it's over, sounds like recovery is going well :T.

in_need_of_direction

Yay to getting it over and done with. What about the trip.

Pearla*Merle

Just running in before I properly settle down to catch up because...*BARGAIN KLAXON!!*

£25 cashback for spending £100 at Amazon using your Nationwide debit or credit card! See here: HUKD info (make sure you read the thread as they make a good point about buying a £100 gift card and then spending it on whatever you like...*)

*I didn't do this as I was just about to buy something and then suddenly remembered about this deal. And didn't read the entire thread. Drats. Oh well. Was going to be spending that amount anyway due to Mr Merle's birthday and such.

Back in a bit...

apple_muncher

Good to hear from you! Even better that you are now RUNNING around!!

greent

Sounds like recovery is going well, PM x


So.... the trip..?


x

Pearla*Merle

Lol, running might have been a rather strong word to use. Hobbled-Like-Little-Old-Lady would be a better picture for right now.

But yes, generally well on the mend despite being taken out for a few days due to hideous migraine (I reckon hormones + sugar probably did it... hey ho). Current trend is however upwards, which is fantabulous. :T Still can't get over how much pain I was carrying around without realising it. Still can't get over how strange it is to feel like a normal person again! And that's still mid-recovery... what will six months down the road be like?! Exciting times

The trip! Currently looking good but I have to wait three weeks post op until I can talk to insurers about it. So sometime next week I'll phone them and see what's possible. Mr Merle did some digging and it looks like I should be able to get insurance, and with any luck we'll only have to top it up by an extra £100 or so to get it for the whole year, which would be fantastic. Please cross all your fingers and toes!

"Having just stepped on the scales, GG wonders how much a gall bladder weighs ".

:rotfl: In all honesty, that went through my mind when they mentioned that I should depart with mine.... until I found out they would remove it via my bellybutton, so am in fact eternally grateful that it's so small.It's all a bit Ancient Egyptian though, even for my tastes. :eek:

Pearla*Merle

Rightio, catch up time. Can't remember much of the last while, it's been slow-going and all over the place. Have mostly been decluttering taped shows (loved Monty Don's history of gardening series) and watching random films (don't know why I inflicted A Streetcar Named Desire on myself this morning - it's amazing but so desperately tragic. Might go back on the Disney for a few days to recover ).

:www: MFW Wonderment: during my migraine malaise, I couldn't do much but pondered some finance plans for next year (and 5/10 year ideas), so that's something. Last few days I've done some surveys, entered comps, think I also signed up for some freebies but can't remember what now.

Nationwide 5% regular saver opened! :T Verrrry happy and excited about trying to fill it up next year.

Finished buying a few bits and bobs for Mr M's Christmas. Happily, waiting a bit has seen things falling in price. Shall try not to panic and buy extra, useless additions. Entire focus now shifts onto his birthday and putting that together - have had a few extra cheap/cheerful/free things to add in there ideas. :T

Direct Debit for energy has reduced by about £10! I've had the heating on lots though (very low level - 16*c sorts it out - and only using an oil heater in the bedroom mostly, which can get quite cold), so not sure how long the lower cost will last, but no point me being cold at the moment. Mild weather is helping - though my crocuses and tulips are shooting up! It's just not right.

Doing rather well with freezer/storecupboard meals at the moment. It helps that simple foodstuffs seems to be the order of the day - soups, veg & pesto with pasta, cottage pie (awesomely cheap cheat: creamy mash powdered packets from Costko - 100% potato, can be used in soups and all sorts). Also currently addicted to tempura basa fillets (freezer ones) from Aldee.

I had a bit of a Christmas Budget put together, I thought I was going to spend it on certain things but now I find I'm not so interested in what I had in mind (plus am off chocolate at the moment ) so instead it's gone on some seasonal preserves and sage/rosemary/thyme plants from a lovely garden centre my parents took me out to last week. Ooh, I also bought some lovely loose leaf teas - a Christmas blend, chocolate orange and something else I forget.

5p found while out and about, straight into the Kitty Bank! :j

:coffee: Simple Pleasures: a tidy-for-Christmas house (well, sort of, it's never going to be tidy in many other people's eyes but my own ); rainbows!; yummy pears; books; fun chats with friends.

:heartsmil Burrow Building: thinking up some fun things to do next year, made even more exciting by the fact that the house is so much more liveable now... knowing I'll have energy and not be sucked into sorting the house out until exhaustion hits is a blinking liberating thought...!